>> My immediate concern with the PI is that it's going to get into >> trouble, eventually, with CF memory. > > The pi has no built-in flash at all; its normal non-volatile storage > is a plug-in SD card. I think the wear-levelling on these is sufficient > that you can run a normal fossil file system for quite a while before > it wears out. And if it does wear out, you just plug in a new one.
That's good to know. Back here in the sticks such information arrives slowly in horse-drawn carriages like 9fans :-) I don't remember how I managed to keep up to date, or when the slipping back started. Probably when my friends started leaving South Africa back in the 1990s. ++L
